Fieldworks : from place to site in postwar poetics / Lytle Shaw.

This book offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, the author draws out th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shaw, Lytle
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Series:	Modern and contemporary poetics.
Subjects:	1900-1999 American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Setting (Literature) Poetics > History > 20th century. setting (surroundings) POETRY > American > General. American poetry Place (Philosophy) in literature Poetics Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : the penning of the field
Boring location : from place to site in Williams and Smithson
Olson's archives : fieldwork in new American poetry
Everyday archaic : the space of ethnopoetics
Baraka's Newark : performing the Black arts
Non-site Bolinas : presence in the poets' polis
Smithson's "Judd" : androids in the expanded field
Smithson's prose : the grounds of genre
Faulting description : Mayer, Coolidge, and the site of scientific authority
Docents of discourse : the logic of dispersed sites
Afterword : measuring sites, unbinding measures.

Fieldworks : from place to site in postwar poetics / Lytle Shaw.

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